Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

Hi, I am trying to delete all of my iPhone contacts, but I have not synced them to Exchange or the iCloud. Is there another way to delete them. I tried doing that on my iphone but it allows me to delete one-by-one I have 340! Thanks for your kind attention.

Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

Flankey wrote:

Hi, I am trying to delete all of my iPhone contacts, but I have not synced them to Exchange or the iCloud. Is there another way to delete them. I tried doing that on my iphone but it allows me to delete one-by-one I have 340! Thanks for your kind attention.

Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

wingrider01 wrote:

Flankey wrote:

Hi, I am trying to delete all of my iPhone contacts, but I have not synced them to Exchange or the iCloud. Is there another way to delete them. I tried doing that on my iphone but it allows me to delete one-by-one I have 340! Thanks for your kind attention.

If you want to get rid of everything just do a factory reset

Home>Settings>general>reset>erase all content and settings. This will take it back to the out of the box settings.

Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

Flankey wrote:

Hi, I am trying to delete all of my iPhone contacts, but I have not synced them to Exchange or the iCloud. Is there another way to delete them. I tried doing that on my iphone but it allows me to delete one-by-one I have 340! Thanks for your kind attention.

Even if you've never synced to another device, you should still see an account that your contacts are under in Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select that account and turn Contacts off and as a previous post suggested, wait a couple minutes before turning Contacts back on. Since your contacts are only stored on the iphone, I'm not sure if turning contacts off/on will get rid of them. If not, the only way to delete all the contacts may to delete the account which will also get rid of any email, calendar entries, reminders or notes associated with that account. Once you delete the account, you can then re-create it but again, you may not be able to get other items back.

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Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

Either reset your device as advised by other users, or - if you do not wish to reset all iPhone settings - use third party tool to delete the contacts. Here is more about how to delete all iphone contacts one by one or all at once.

Re: How to delete all contacts in iPhone 3G?

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kPaks wrote:

Either reset your device as advised by other users, or - if you do not wish to reset all iPhone settings - use third party tool to delete the contacts. Here is more about how to delete all iphone contacts one by one or all at once.

If you are syncing through mobile me and you want to remove all the contacts from the iphone, here are a couple of steps that might help out.

Go to settings > mail, contacts, calendars > mobile me account.In here you can turn contact syncing off.If this is on and you turn it off, it will remove all contacts from the iphone.If this is off and you turn it on, it will remove any contacts from the iphone and sync what is out on your mobile me account.